Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-27
Grimes.

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On his second trial DR.. Weir, OF East
Tawas, Mich, was acquitted Of the charge
OF numbering Mabel Clark.
John NELL, clerk in the civil district court
at New Orleans, was shot BY James Doran,
special policeman, in political quarrel.
Charlie jim, p Chinese laundryman OF
New York, has been arrested for killing a
boy who threw missile through his
window.
-Four brakemen and woman have been
arrested at Philadelphia for robbing freight
cars. The ringleaders fled on hearing Of
the arrest of their accompiices
All the six murderers of the American.
j. B. Duval, at Santa Rosa, have been CON
victed, and are on their way to prison to
serve ten-yeer sentence.
Poisoned milk caused the death OF six
members OF a prominent family at Havana,
Cuba, ladies and 2 children. Five per-
sons are under arrest for the crime.
One fthe Ozark, Mo-, Bald Knob ranr
has plead guilty and implored mercy.
This opens the way for reaching other
members OF the gang, to the number Of
ninety or more. Is
At Winnipeg, Man, Tom Newton, a
bricklayer, quarreled with dairyman
named lingo, about dog Newton went to
his house got a gun and shot lingo dead, on
the principal street OF the city.
4 colored boy, years old, living in Lam
caster county, Ga, had a quarrel with two
small colored girls over water melon, and
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shot gun loaded with buckshot killing one
OF the girls
Sheriff Charles Lynch, Of Alpena, Mich,
has died at the Detroit Sanitayium from
shot wound in the leg, inflicted BY the
notorious ssBlinkey'' Morgan. Sheriff
Lynch planned and carried out the scheme
20 capture abInkeyn Morgan and others
alleged to be the murderers OF Detective
Hulligan, of Cleveland. His murderer is
now IN Jail at Ravenna, Ohio.
The Sumter, S. G. National Bank has
temp rarily suspended, owing to the CON
duct OF the cashier, Charles e. Bartlett,
now IN Canada It is believed that the
0e0. Bartlett is well connected and his
downfall is attributed to disastrous
speculations in wheat and cotton futures
The bank will pay all Liabilities in full and
commune business.
Jerry White, negro, broke into a house
at Valentine, Nebraska, few DAYS ago
and dubbed into insensibility, Mrs. Hoff-
man, an aged lady alone there, but some
one then opportunity arrived and the
scoundrel fled. He was pursued. captured
and jailed at Valentine. go men at one
O'Clock IN the morning broke open the iail
with sledge hammers and hanged the
.cuiprit to telegraph pole. The coroner's
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Alexander Robinson, the colored man
arrested at youngstown, O., charged with
criminally assaulting an 11-year-oId white
girl, died Friday, it is claimed, OF fright.
The popniace, enraged at the story told by
the victim, demanded his immediate ex-
ecution, and lynching was feared. "a few
hours alter the unfortunate negro breathed
his last the girl said he was not her
assallant; the crime had been committed
by q white peddler named Bishop, who
threatened to kiH her il she did not faste,,
the guilt on Robinson. The white man has
fed.
a terrible tragedy has been enacted in
the Chickasaw Nation in which three per-
sons were fatally wounded Two families
named Harrison and Graham became in
svolyed in quarrel about Harrison, S
sdaughLer, whom young Graham wanted to
marry, but the lady's father declined to
allow the marriage The young man
threatened to shoot Harrison and the
slatters son belieYing his fathers life in
danger, shot Graham intaicting a mortal
wound. A young brother Of the wounded
man seeing his brother fall, shot young
Harrison through the arm, when the elder
Harrison, who had armed himself re-
appeared, and was also shot by Graham.
Fires and Casualties.
The Coroners jury upon the B COR. r.,
accident at Washington, D. c., censure the
railroad company for habitually using too
great rate OF seped at the dangerous point
where the accident occurred.
The Standard Oil works, Pearce 6 Ryan,s
ldistillery and Swans marble works at
Nashville, Tenn, burned on the 23rd by
ire originating IN Standard Oil Co. loss
SlOO,0OO; there was no insurance except 4
small policy on the distinery.
The village Of Degrafff, Logan county, Ohio,
place OF I 200 inhabitants, was almost en-
tirely destroyed by fire. The business por-
ton OF the village was entirely wiped out.
and several residences are reported destroy
ed. The loss IL about $30, 600,
By the spreading OF rails passenger train
was wrecked on the Cleveland 81 Pittsbnrp
r. r., near BayArd, Ohio. The rear sleanar
LETT the track and fell over on its side Two
other sleepers left the track, but were